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the Spanish Consul-General and Charge d'AtTaires in the United States of North Arner•ic..-a. " On the 20th inst. our Lord Don FLOIDINAND VIT. was proclaimed in this city with Universal jnicing,, and was also proclaimed at the same time in the other towns of this Island. • - " Various patriotic gifts are now presented every day, and whenever their amout is considerable, it shall be remitted to Cadiz by the first safe convey- .ance, to be paced at the dis - posal of your Excellen cies. The Proclamations and Decrees of your Ex , . cellency, which have come into my hands, have been communicated to the people through the jour nal of this city, called the" Aurora. (Signed)' " Marquis DE SOMERUELOS." [Here follows the Proclamation of the Marquis De Some- Tutios to the inhabitants - of Cuba, dated Etavannal4 }lily .1 7 , • which we have already given from the West India:Papers./ i) I`JALAGA, SEPT. 23.—This city held, on the 21st of this rnonS), a Festival in honour of the Conqueror of the Battle oftaylen, and to testify its gratitude to 1 - that illustrious General. A Triumphal Arch was formed at the entronee of the street Santa Rossa, of the most beautiful Architefture, with the following 1 ; Inscription;--- " To the Conqueror of .the Tyrants of Europe, and the Liberator of Andalusia." Over this inscription was a pedestal supporting a lion, struggling with an eagle, with another inscription, " Lcng live our beliaved Monarch Ferctinando VII." • Through this Arch his Excellency Sr. D. TEODORO REDIIIG, Commandant-General of the army of the Kingdom of Grenada,, and Governor of, the city, made his entrance, accompanied by a deputation of the good city, and preceded by a detachment of the cavalry belonging to the guard of honour of the Junta of Government. Another deputation remained in . the Arch to re ceive his Excellency. A pigeon with an olive branch repfeselited the Peace which must ultimately result to all Europe from the battle of Baylen. Three chil dren of four years Old, who represented the three Graces, were stationed in the triumphal arch with baskets of flowers, which they scattered along the road. On his Excellency's approach, the artillery sainted him. The military bans played, during the whole of the ceremony, excellent pieces of music, composed for the occaion.—Thus Malaga has testi fied its just gratitude to its illustrious champion, al= ways revered in- peace as Well as war, but still more since in Malaga he has contributed so much to deliver the Andalusiaris from the modern Vandals, who have invaded them with more fury than the ancient. PANCORRO, OCT. I.—The French are surroundet4 without the possibility of effeEting their escape in any diredtion. Our advanced posts daily go in sight of their encampments, without any difficulty. Yes-... terday one of our advanced parties, consisting of thirty men, had a rencounter with a French detach 'merit of about seventy men, who were escorting a convoy of provisions. They took from them a great qnantity of biscuit, 102 sheep, and four bullocks. The enemy also had two. men killed in this affair; Dot one on our side bad the slightest wound. MADRID, OCT. 6.-=--Their Excellencies Seignors VALDES and CCESTA are at Aranjuez. The Su preme Junta will give uniformity of tone to the pub lic opinion, -. a matter of very great importance under the present circumstances. Our army will speedily amount to 500,000 men, of whom 300,000 will be employed in alual service in the Pyrenees. the Provinces acted se parately, it was difficult to ascertain the number of Our troops. To prevent the enemy from sowing dissention among us, an order has been issued, prohibiting the circulation of all books, pamphlets, or papers, printed without the names of their respedive authors. LAGUNA, SEPT. 29.—There has been, slime fight ing in this quarter. The inhabitants, accompanied by forty-six men of the regime; of Murcian Rifle ruen, went cut to attack fifty French Cuirassiers, and succeeded in killing five ,soldiers, the first and se- , cord Orli:Sers its commsncl, and several horses, with out any loss being sustained on our side. RosAs, SEPT.'S', I .—A Custom-house Officer, jus t returned from boarding an Eie;lisii Sloop of War , states; that G,ner,ll DUPONT Lel been on board of the said Sleop five days before; and that he was go iog to F•ance with six of his Staf OfficerS '<irrd 100 subalterns, in a Spanish Vessel, sailing un'der Sardi titan coloers, apd provided with . Englidi passports, LERT.:A, OCT. a letter from Egea de los Caballeros, _dated the 24th ult. we learn, that on that day se'nnight, s.OOO men belonging to PALA -1:105C5 army entered that place, and that more were expected. A number of troops belonging to the army of Llamas are poste;.: in Thazona,and the en ., nous. The French, from 3 to 4000 in number, baye entered 'Smiguassa, a town of Navarre, nine leagues from this place. In Sos, situated only two }e4goo taint Sauguessa, we have IT.OOO men, who daly exclelnge shOt - s with the. French, who are con t il!y changing their. positions. It is believed that they are extremely. dissatisfied; for according to the reports of the sick and wounded, whom they-sent to• Bayonne, they were refused admission, being told, that in France conquered rx mice would find no re ception. On this account, and the good treatment which we give them, they desert in numbers to qs ; for we learn from Sos, that 200 of their cavalry had - just come over to us ; and at this rate their army will speedily dis,ippear. . By letters from the head-quarters aE Llobregat, we learn that the French camp, on the mountain of St. Pedro , Martin, was a few 'days since struck with lightning, ancl_tilat a powder pagazine having been, get on tire, upwards of forty of the soldiers who guard e d it were killed,' by the explosion. These • letters further state, that the Commandant of that town, .D. ANTONIO Coats, had .taken from the reach 95 head of cattle. • • ' • TRESPADUNE, OCT. 3.—lt has rained incessant ly for ten : days past. Should the weather become a little more favourable, we will speedily dispose of the French ruffians. They' are so surrounded on all sides, that it is impossible for a man of them to escape. The head-quarters are at Quincoces, in the provinco of Alava. We are about - ive leagues' from that place; and two from Pancorvo. The third divi sion is posted at and near Ordane, and the fourth at Balmaseda six leagues from Bilboa. • Seignor CAS TANOS is at Logrono, and Seignor PA GAFOX' is re , I Ported to be et Iron. There are 15,000 French qt L'ilboa. Their frietyd, MAzAREIDA, and his traitor ous colleagues, are there with them. Between Puenta, Laherada, ViBoria, and the places adjacent,. there are ',torn 14 to - 15,00() more Frenchmen:. They are sadly frightened. They make occasional excursions in quest of provisions, for they are straitened at all polnts. The peasantry . have .now . so.corppletely shaken off their fears, that the old and young attack them. Yesterday morning five French Dragoons were met by three of the Volunteers of. Navarre. The latter instantly attacked them; killed one, and Wounded two, and took frog a them tN4o mules, the horse' of the man that was killed, and 4000 reals, which they had plundered. Hitherto all goes on well. GOD send us fair weather, that we, may speedily bring matters to a final decision. We already suffer much from the cc - 4.1d, for on the morning of the ist instant the mountains were co vered with snow. MADRID, OCT. B.—A Letter just received from Gerona, states, that 5000 of the French hare entered our territory from the side of Roussillon, but they were attacked and totally routed by the Somatenes and Miqueletets. The Frencii in Barcelona 'have made proposals of capitulatioh, but the Catalans would- not listen to therb. 'Troops are daily arriving here and marching off again r some for Castile and others towards Barcelona. The aaivity of the Central Junta is dlready conspi cuous. We shall soon see a number of traitors brought to justice, for the most active measures are taken to discover and apprehend them. ARA NJUEZ,- OCT. B.—On the 30th Ult. his Ex cellency Seignor PRINCIPE no, took the oaths and his seat, as Deputy to the , Central Junta, from Valencia ; and on the 2d instant Seignors D. MI 6LUEL BA LANZA and D. CARLOS . AMATRI, frOM•Na varre ; and the Marquis Du ASTORGA and D. i i mnto DE SILVA, from Madrid. The Supreme Central Junta, from the first day of its happy installation, thought that the object which in preference to every other should occupy its at tention, was that of accelerating the- march of the armies to meet the enemy, in order to expel them 'as speedily as possible from the Spanish territory, which they have so infamously occupied and ravaged. The authentic intelligence lately received 'by the Junta, that the enemy, far from abandoning his me ditated system of oppression and tyranny, intendeci, to sand fresh reinforcements into Spain, caused the, Junta to redouble their exertions to, oppose to him an army capable of resisting and chastising him.— But as many preparatory_ measures were necessary to expedite the march and the lunation of so consider able a force, Couriers were dispatched to all points, with. orders to colle& the means which the Junta thought expedient and indispensable. The result has been, that all the troops that were in Andalusia, Granada, and Estretnadura, as well as those recently raised in these and the 'other Pro vinces, are already in motion ; that-the Spanish di vision so basely disarmed by the French at Lisbon, have been embarked at that port for the destination assigned them ; and that the whole of the English army in Portugal, the conquerors of JUNOT, are al-, ready on their march to join our forces. The Junta have further made application to the King, of GREAT BRITAIN, of whose generosity and attachment to our just cause the Spanish nation has already received so many proofs, for supplies of linen, woollen cloth, arms and ammunition, money, and every thing else necessary to make resistance against a powerful enemy, whose obstinacy will not fail to exert all the means in his power to carry into execution his desperate eoerprize. The most ne cessary and urgent aid, under the present circum stances, is that of money to defray the pay and sub sistence of the troops, the funds which the Junta have been able to obtain being remote, They flatter themselves, however, with having 'adopted means . so efficacious, that in a very shOrt time, if their wishes meet with due support on the part of the na tion; they will not only be in a condition to expel the enemy from our territory and frontiers, but also, should it be deemed expedient, to attack him in hii own country. • _• _ _ The perfeet union which prevails among all the. members of the Juuta , ,' and. the patriotic spirit which animates the whole nation, are the surest guarantee That we shall triumph over our enemy, who could not but by means of fraud and -,pertiny have pene trated into a country inhabited by Spaniards. 'By these means atone were they enabled .to carry otf from.us our beloved King FERDINAND VII. and to commit the greatest atrucitie, where they met with no resistance. Experience Must by this time haveconvinced them that a brave and energetic nation, who love their King, gnd cannot endute a foreign yoke, are not to be insulted wit - 43 impunity. • • SoTo, 'SEPT. g4.—Yosteulay, in consequence of orders just received, the French' nddenly niarch ed riff from this quarter, and evacuated the city of Logrono. The cause of this unexpe&ed movement has not transpired. ARANJUEZ, OCT. 4.—On the 25th. of September last, the day on which the Supreme and Central Junta of Government was installed, that event was communicated to the President of the „Royal Coun cil, along with all authentic copy of the .Ati of In stallation. On the 26th, the President gave his sanaion to the said Ad. CORUNNA, OCT. Nonpareil Brig arrived here this day from Plymouth, with dispatches a i nd a messenger for Madrid. She is under orders to sail again early to-morrow,with dispatches from Ma drid,,which have been lying here these three days,,in order to be for:varded.. 'The Spanish Admiral IVI A S •-• SAREDO, ccho has now a command in the French army, entered Bilboa along with NEY, and issued a Proclathation, threatening - the severest punishments if the people did not immediately raise a con tribution for the maintenance of the truops of their Sovereign iOSPII I. It also'orders the confiscation of the houses 'and property of every kind, of all the inhabitants whet have fled, if they do not return within a limited time. MASSAREDO is a native of Biscay. On the 6th, four Transports arrived at St. Andero from England,. with provistona for the Spanish Army. - it is understood that tile' armies under CAS TANos and CUESTA have formed a junction with Ge neral BLAKE. The' Pallas Frigate arrived here last night,` and sailed again this tuoirting on a cruize‘ of Cape Finisterre, in company with the . Diun.l. o THE SU N. 601,11 M QUI& DICERZ FALSUM AUDZAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 - , 1808. A Report was yesterday circulated, that the Rus sian Nobility had, 'immediately after the departure of the Emperor ALEiANDER for Erfurth, made a pro position to the present Empress, and the Empress Dowager, to place themselves at the head of the Government, and to set aside the Emperor ALEX ANDER and his brother CONSTANTINE. It was added, that the Empresses declined the offer, but expressed in strong terms their disapprobation of the condu& of the Emperor, in, condescending to attend Buo- NAPARTE. We know not upon what authority this report rests, but we think it extremely probable that some such event should take place in Russia. The circumstance of a short delay having taken place in' the landing of Sir DAVID BArim's Troops at Cdrunna, has afforded the Opposition Writers a new ground of declamation, and -though they are totally, unacquainted with the cause of the delay, they boldy throw all the blame upon Ministers, and say, they sent over these Troops to Spain without any previous concert with the Spanish Government, or even notifying their approach. There is some thing so extravagantly absurd in. this 'assertion, that we should mit believe it was seriously. nude, if we had not recently seen many -other , attacks of a similar nature. There is indeed something whiinsiCally contradi&ory in the lan guage of the Opposition Writers respe&ing Spain, and it proceeds ,from the singular situation in which they are placed r heretofore, whenever any foreign Government entered into alliance with us,-. from that moment it became an objet of . the cettli-: , sure of the Opposition Writers, and then their task was easy. " Praise France and her Allies; abuse Great Britain and her Allies," was a lesson •so simple and pain, that • it could not be misunder-, stood.—But now matters are a - little more com plicated, 'and sad confusion and contradielion have been the consequence. • The. Spanish Govern ment is not to be attacked, even though it is wing in concert with Great Britain. • The British Government must be OppOsed at all events, though embarked in a common camp with Spain; and what is from its novelty perhaps the most difficult task of all, BUONAPARTE is to be accused of ambition and perfidy. It certainly is nut easy to . perform all these opposite duties without being now and then a little coniradi&ory. We remember at one time we NVIO 1; told, with great affectation of sup er i o r knowledge; -7 that Spain did not want and would not accept assist ance in troops from us—immediately after Ministers were censured for not sending an Army into Spain'; and, to, complete the Climax, they are now censured for having sent an Army without any concert Whh. the Spanish Government ! If any answer ro -this charge were necessary, we need only refer to the Letters from Corunna, given iu the Papet to which we allude.. We have this day 'continued our Extraas from the Spanish Papers. The Supreme Central Junta has commenced its faudions, and has displayed a degre of aairity and vigour which amply justifies the con fidence whiCh their countrymen liave placed in them. These Papers are quite silent upon the subje& of any Reinforcements received by the French, though there certainly was a report at Corunna, that an additional French Force of 30,000 men had reached the - Spa nish Frontiers. We yeSterday expressed our doubts as to the truth of - this Report, and we are convinced that the Reinforcements do not amount to half the nuMber mentioned. The accounts given in tnese 'Papers of the numbers of the Spanish Armies are highly gratifying. The following is the estimate which they make : Central Army, under CastanDs - - - 65,0c0 Northern Army, under Blake, including to,ooo As- turians - - - - - - - sopoo Arragonese, undet PalafOrc - - - - Catalonians, under Lamas - - - 20,030 Reinforcements on march from Saragossa, under Valdes ,000 Ditto from Grenada, under Reding Ditto from Portugal, under Badajos - 10,000 1 41 -0 ° - .lo,eco The Marquis De ttomana's Arniy To this are to be added, the Armies under Gene rals MOORE and BAIRD, and the remainder' Of the British Force in Portugal,' which is to be sentto Catalonia, making altogether about T 50,000 men. It is, however, to be observed, that in' the estimate of the Spanish Armies, it - is not to be , supposed that they, are all Troops of the Line; nearly one-hatfri consist of Volunteers and new Levies but the wise and cautious system which the Spanish Command ers have adopted, is calculated, to add all the ad vantages of discipline to their enthusiasm and cou-_; The Spanish Government, to mark its respect and gratitude to the English Nation, has given o de s t the Transport which put.into Vigo, with 206 Fre:;cli. men on board, should be released. Accprding to private Letters from Holland, dated, tllt:.igth inst. received since those that gave an , ac count of the new restriction upon commerce - , Men-' tioned in our Paper of Tuesday, some difference of opinion has arisen between the Einperor of Etussrii , and BUONAPARTE. The latter, with all that furious impetuosity which marks his charader, which makes him terrible even to those who are most subservient to his views, and which the passive submission lie finds has rendered habitual, proposed the,most violent measures. The Emperor of RUSSIA, who is mild in his disposition, suggested operations of a more con ciliatoryand temperate description, and even ventured to advise an acknowledgment of the independence pi Spain, and a restoration of its Monarch ; but it is said that 13 s UONAPARTE, far from giving 'way to them, became still more irritated, and re proached ALEXANDER with an intention to vio late the Treaty of Tilsit. We do not confichintly state the existence of this dispute, but it is certainly chara&eristic of the French Usurper, and it is 6 be hoped that the Emperor ALEXANDER is not so much lost to a sense of his own dignity,: and so indifferent to the opinion of his own subjeasA as to become a passive instrument to the former is all his ambitious and aggressive designs. We have so fully expressed our sentiments upori, the subje6t.of the late Address of the City of Lon don to His MAJESTY, on the Convention of Cintrap, that it 'cannot he necessary' for us to enter into ail • ,Animadversions upon the Meeting which yelterdaY took place in th*Common Council, for the purpose of receiving that Answer, or upon the consequent Resolutions which passed on the 'occasion.--Thy Resolutions, which we'have inserted in another part of our Paper, are conceived in terms that we con ceive loyal and moderate men must condemn.—We , h3pe the City of London will on all occasions main" tain its just dignity : we hope too that it never will relinquish its right to petition the Throne upon pro -, per occasions, but we hope that it never will lose , sight of the dignity which becomes the Throne also, or prematurely avail itself of such Th e Jan: guage of the Address, whatever explanation may he attempted, certainly presumed that the Framers of , the Convention deserved punishment, while it pro' fessed only to - Solicit,irquiry. His MAJEST't, there" • fore, would in effe6l have given a san&ion to thig , prejedication, .if he .had not; rp.anif a sted of dissatisfaation at the obvious presumption of guilt , when perhaps no guilt may appear, but when deed it may be found that the measure in questiva was politic,, expedient, and necessary. But though the -ResOlutions Were carried yesterday, we cannot identity the party which succeeded with the City of London itielf, as we are*persuaded that a very larg e proportion of its inhabitants disapprOve of the Ad" dress, and doubted not that his Majesty, from the impulse of his own patriotic mind, was anxious to .in q uire into the foundation of a measure, which, 0 9 'he stated from the Throne, was certainly a disap pointment to the hopes of 'his people. His Royal Highness the Duke Of CUMBERLAN 9 entertained a seleal party at dinner yesterday, at 1 ' 1 ! house,in St. James's. a wn His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK lett r this day, on a visit to their MAJESTIES at Win ds The following is a private letter from Spain, -at ed Corunna OCt. 1 G : "The army under the command of Sir DAVID BAIRD arrived here on the 1311). Admiral De COI)" CEX and Lieutenant-Colonel K ENNEDY, imrnedi itely after his landing, accompanied him and his Star to the Junta, where he was received with that attention and delight which characterises the affection of the Spaniards to the British nation. It would have been fortunate if the army had arrived a few days e arlie r cr later, in either case it could have landed imrn e ; diately, which it will be now prevented doing five or six days, from the circumstance of the G 3 ' clan clan authorities having only this week acknowlejgo the power of the Supreme Central Junta, a - na disembarkation of the troops could not of course place Until the return of the express which WO Em mediately dispatched to Aranjuez, and which ntb,'' r , r . wise would not have been the case; or, had ti le r ,' waited a few days longer, the order would have ready for them. " Sir DAVID BAIRD has been requested to 10 during this interval, and any officers he may chon ° to permit. The horses are to be disembarked n 1 : 1 : mediately, and ..-4.ery exertion used to complcle 13 7 arrangement made some days since upon the ape_ cation of Lieutenant-Colonel KENNEDY for the re ; ception of our troops. It is impossible for any tin t/ Z to exceed the harmony which exists between 1 ' Spaniards and English of all - classes.. ,pt Of " Sir D. BAIRD, Generals MANNINGHAM,W.. -D a and CRAUPURD went last night to the Theatre! 0 . new entertainment was repeated, in which htn n FERDINAND the Seventh, and King GEORGS the Third, embraced each ()Tiler several times received With enthusiastic applause, as also. God sn' d the King, which was ictri.duced frequently , T o _ performed with the whole house standing. A sD per!) box - was fitted up expressly for General BA! and his Staff. Many British Oificers were invite to into the private boxes, and every Spaniard seea'sbe recognize. an old_ friend in every Engiishrot"? the meets. S4r,D. ItAir,D is, as usual, the idol of, army, and 'istalready become extremely popular. 14 ' tt the inhabitarrts of Corunna." MAILS. , tAmuvED-1 Dublin. Dug—: Gotten')(ugh, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford.